How to use FlutterFlow's data binding to connect your app's UI to its data?

Step 1: Open your FlutterFlow Project

Start off by accessing your FlutterFlow project. Remember, in order to use FlutterFlow, you must be registered and have a created project. If you don't have one, go ahead and create a new FlutterFlow project.

Step 2: Design the UI of your Flutter App

Designing the user interface of an app typically involves creating screens and adding components (also known as widgets). FlutterFlow provides a variety of components such as Lists, Images, Text, Ratings, and so forth that you can utilize to design your app.

Simply click on the + ADD button located at the top left section of your screen to add new screens and components to your app.

Step 3: Create or Import your Data

In this step, you should either create new data using FlutterFlow's built-in database system, Firestore, or import existing data via Firebase or any other supported database. To create a new Firestore database:

• Click on the Backend tab located on the left side of your screen.
• Select the Data tab and then click on the Collections tab.
• Click the + New Collection button to create a new data collection.

To import existing data:

• Go to the Backend tab again.
• Select the Integrations tab and click on the + Add Integration button and follow the prompts to include your existing database.

Step 4: Bind your Data to your UI

With your UI and data ready, you can now go ahead and bind your data to your UI. Data binding is essentially setting up a connection between your data and the UI in a way that changes to the data reflect in the UI.

This is how you bind your data to your UI:

• Navigate to one of your screens via the Pages tab on the left side.
• Locate the component you want to bind your data to, and click on it to display its properties on the right side.
• Locate the box labelled Data, which provides options based on the type of widget. (For example, a Text widget will show Text Source, an Image will show Image Source, etc.)
• Inside the Data box, click on the Add Binding button to bring up the data binding dialog box.
• From the dialog box, click on the Binding Type dropdown box and select Collection Binding. Another dropdown box labelled Collection appears.
• Select your data from the Collection dropdown box. Another dropdown box labelled Data field appears.
• Select the specific data field from your data that you want to bind to your UI component from the Data Field dropdown box.
• Save your data binding by clicking on SAVE.

Step 5: Test your Data Binding

Finally, to check if your data binding works, preview your live app. You should be able to see the data from your database being displayed in the UI of your app.

Now your UI is connected to your data through FlutterFlow's data binding!